The House at the Edge of Night, Catherine Banner, Dallas Morning News
The Mandibles, Lionel Shriver, Minneapolis Star Tribune
She Poured Out Her Heart, Jean Thompson, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Zero K, Don DeLillo, Minneapolis Star Tribune
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, Helen Oyeyemi, Dallas Morning News
LaRose, Louise Erdrich, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Queen of the Night, Alexander Chee, Los Angeles Times
A Doubter’s Almanac, Ethan Canin, The Millions
A Doubter’s Almanac, Ethan Canin, Star Tribune
The High Mountains of Portugal, Yann Martel, Star Tribune
Golden Age, Jane Smiley, Star Tribune
Mothers, Tell Your Daughters, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Star Tribune
The Heart Goes Last, Margaret Atwood, Star Tribune
The Beautiful Bureaucrat, Helen Phillips, Star-Tribune
Mr and Mrs Doctor, Julie Iromuanya, Star Tribune
A God in Ruins, Kate Atkinson, Star Tribune
Early Warning, Jane Smiley, Star Tribune
God Help the Child, Toni Morrison, Star Tribune
The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro, Star Tribune
She Weeps Each Time You’re Born, Quan Barry, The Millions
She Weeps Each Time You’re Born, Quan Barry, Star Tribune
After Birth, Elisa Albert, Star Tribune
A Spool of Blue Thread, Anne Tyler, Star Tribune
How to Be Both, Ali Smith, Star Tribune
2014 Critic’s Choice, Star Tribune, Lila, Marilynne Robinson
Hiding in Plain Sight, Nuruddin Farah
The Witch and Other Tales Re-Told, Jean Thompson
Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932, Francine Prose
The Marshlands, Matthew Olshan
The Ballad of Barnabas Pierkiel, Magdalena Zyzak
Andrew’s Brain, E. L. Doctorow
How to Read a Novelist, John Freeman
The Childhood of Jesus, J. M. Coetzee
Claire of the Sea Light, Edwidge Danticat
Fin and Lady, by Cathleen Schine
Sisterland, by Curtis Sittenfeld
Big Brother, by Lionel Shriver
The Humanity Project, by Jean Thompson
The Interestings, by Meg Wolitzer
The Tenth of December, by George Saunders
May We Be Forgiven, by A. M. Homes
The Elephant Keeper’s Children, by Peter Hoeg
In Between Days, by Andrew Porter
The Fall of Alice K, by Jim Heynen
The Man Within My Head, by Pico Iyer
The New Republic, by Lionel Shriver
The Beginner’s Goodbye, by Anne Tyler
A Lost Memory of Skin, by Russell Banks
The Girl in the Blue Beret, by Bobbie Ann Mason
So Much for That, by Lionel Shriver
Beatrice and Virgil, by Yann Martel
The Infinities, by John Banville
The Theory of Light and Water, by Andrew Porter
Too Much Happiness, by Alice Munro
The Year of the Flood, by Margaret Atwood
A Gates at the Stairs, by Lorrie Moore
That Old Cape Magic, by Richard Russo
The Bolter, by Frances Osborne
Byron in Love, by Edna O’Brien
Ten Days in the Hills, by Jane Smiley and The Emperor’s Children, by Claire Messud
Accordion Crimes, by E. Annie Proulx
Heartsongs and Other Stories, by E. Annie Proulx
On the Edge, by Elizabeth Drew
The Rest of Life, by Mary Gordon